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ties of A. cocdnea. The colours are more lively, and of various tints of 

 crimson and vivid pink or scarlet ; and there is in several, particularly in 

 the specimen (A. thyrsifolia) sent to you, a tendency more or less deve- 

 loped to produce flowers laterally. In some, the vivid pink and light crim- 

 son tints are very beautiful ; and there is hardly an individual among them 

 which, a few j^ears ago, would not have been thought an acquisition to the 

 garden. The seedlings from A. rubescens, by A. triamphans, were never 

 with me the objects of so much solicitude as those just described. They 

 surpass them greatly in magnificence, following generally the type of A. 

 calendulacea, and are very late-flowering plants, of many gradations of 

 colours, from pale yellow to orange, salmon colour, pink, and beautiful 

 mixed tints; they produce large umbels, with expanded corollas, are elegant 

 in habit, and hardly to be surpassed in loveliness. Of those which flowered 

 here last summer for the first time, we were able to discriminate sufficiently 

 to give names to about 30 varieties, each of distinguished beauty or fra- 

 grance." 



/?ubus *nutkanus, Nootka Raspberry. From North-west and North 

 America, by Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural Society ; resembling the 

 T^iibus odonitus, but with white flowers. — Anomatheca *cruenta. A de- 

 sirable Cape bulb (/rideae), flowering from May till late in the autumn. 

 Introduced by Mr. Tate of the Sloane Street nursery. 



No. X. for December, contains 

 1370 to 1376. — 5'alvia Graham/. Found by J. G. Graham, Esq., near 

 the mines of Tlalauxahua in Mexico, after whom it is named by Mi". Ben- 

 tham, the reformer of this order of plants. A suffruticose plant, about 

 3 ft. high, with bright purple flov/ers, very handsome, about 1 in. long, in- 

 eluding the calyx. " The plant begins to flower in July, and continues in 

 beauty till October : its flowers are iwt so showy as those of the S. fulgens 

 and spiendens ; but the richness of their purple, and their constant succes- 

 sion, amply compensate for inferiority of size. It siiould be planted out in 

 the open bonier in May, and transferred to the green-house at the approach 

 of frost ; or if cuttings, by which it increases freely, are struck in the au- 

 tumn, as a provision for another year, the okl plant may be abandoned to 

 its fate." — *Hayl6ckifl (so named by Mr. Herbert, in compliment to Mr. 

 Matthew Haylock, who has the care of the collection of plants at Spof- 

 forth ; and both there, and previously at Mitcham, in the course of the last 

 22 years, has brought no small number of plants, especially of this natural 

 order, to blossom for the first time in this country) pusilla. A curious 

 little green-house bulb, which " brings the western AmnrylWdca; near 

 indeed to ilfelanthacea;. With bulb, foliage, capsule, and seed that are 

 scarcely distinguishable from Zephyninthes, it has a flower which is nearly 

 that of a Colchicum." — /^osa multiflora var. platyphylla. The most beau- 

 tiful of all the climbing roses of our gardens. A native of China, where it 

 is called the Seven Sisters' Rose ; because about seven flowers open at the 

 same time, and each varying from the otlier, from a pale rose colour to a 

 deep crimson. It was introduced between 1815 and 1817. It comes nearest 

 to R. m. var. Grevillw", but is more splendid, and requires greater care dur- 

 ing winter to preserve its young shoots from being destroyed by frost. Its 

 blossom buds are always formed on the twigs of strong two-jear-old shoots ; 

 and an east or west wall, or open trelliswork, suits it better than a south 

 ■wall. — *Prat/« (in honour of M. Prat-Bernon, a young naval officer, who 

 died on board the French discovery ship Urania) hegomcefolia. Nearly 

 allied to Lobel;«, but distinguished by its baccate fruit. " A pretty little 

 plant, found by Dr. Wallich in shady moist places in Nipal, and ex- 

 tremely well adapted for forming neat patches upon rock. It was thus cul- 

 tivated when we saw it growing at Syon, in the collection of His Grace the 

 Duke of Northumberland. Mr. Forrest informs us that it bore the rigour 



